Islamic jihadists have advanced by invading country after country with the sword of Islam. The invasion of Iran was only the start of the tenacious scourge of Islam. Slaughtering people by the hundreds of thousands at the time left the remainder of the Iranians little choice but to convert to the creed of this cult of violence. Left with no choice, millions converted to Islam at the point of the sword, and a few hundred thousand brave souls circled the wagons, so to speak, and held firm to their creed of light — the Zoroastrian faith.

For centuries, the Zoroastrians paid heavily in all manner under the rule of converted Muslims; many were forced to leave for other lands such as India, while still others were driven out of their homes to marginal areas within Iran.

Those who moved to India are called Parsis, an exclusive minority in India that is revered and respected. They don’t ask for handouts, they give to charity. They don’t ask for jobs, they provide jobs to millions. They came to India as refugees, persecuted by Muslims there. They lived in harmony with their hosts as sugar dissolves in milk. They educated themselves, created wealth, supported their own community and helped others as well.

Now contrast them with Muslims. They came as looters and plunderers. They ruled us for centuries, during which, they oppressed other religions with brute force. They were always in conflict with their hosts, cutting off the hand that fed them! They detested any other kind of education, barring the reading of anything other than the Quran.

Yet all along, many Iranians revered the religion of their ancestors and resented the Arab-imposed creed. Nonetheless, the virus of Islam had taken deep root. As a result, a compromise evolved. The overwhelming majority of Iranians, who had become some sort of generic Muslims, parted company with the original line of the Sunni caliphate and adopted Shiism. The tragic history of Shiism appealed to Iranians, who felt a great affinity, consciously or unconsciously, with the tragic suffering of the Imamate line at the hand of mainstream Sunni Muslims.

Switching allegiance from one sect of the cult of death to another did little more than provide a venting opportunity to victimized Iranians. They could not find it within themselves to get rid of the Islamic virus while it offered them a degree of relief, enabling them to vilify mainstream Sunnis for inflicting them with the Islamic disease in the first place.

Fourteen hundred years of suffering is far too long for any people, although the Jews hold the record for that misfortune. The Jews have at long last returned to their homeland, even though they are still encircled by vicious Arab Muslims who would like nothing better than to drown every one of them in the sea, as jihadis forced our Zoroastrian people out of the country or and compelled the remaining few to move to the edges of an inhospitable desert.

My motherland, the present Iran, the cradle of civilization, the land of Cyrus the Great — the original author of the great Human Rights Charter — was ravaged by Muslim killers. The upstanding Iranian people who lived by the great Zoroaster’s triad of Goodly Thoughts, Goodly Speech, and Goodly Deeds stood no chance against Muslim beasts, the savages of Arabia, who had been promised by Muhammad: if you kill or you get killed, either way you will be admitted to Allah’s gloriously lush paradise for eternity in compensation. This pie-in-the-sky paradise of Allah, Muhammad intimated, includes among other things, rivers of milk and honey, as well as 72 virgins for every male.

The present mullahcracy in Iran is in the form of a pyramid. The mullahs in the game at the top have skimmed and continue to skim inordinate amounts of national income. Although their job supposedly is to preach peace and brotherly love, in most cases they don’t and they can’t, simply because the life manual of Islam, the Quran, is filled with hatred and violence, and that shapes Muslims’ thoughts and deeds. Hence both mullahs and imams become the principal agents of terror and believe their cause to be the cause of Allah. This misanthropic result is the outcome of Islam.

They are the result of adherence to the Islamic creed, precisely as codified in scripture.

Once I left Iran, my battle with this dogma of hate and violence began. I decided to raise the clarion call about the imminent and present danger of expansionist, theocratic Islam throughout the civilized world. Having witnessed firsthand the horrors and indignity that Islamic doctrine visits on people it subjugates, I was determined to take it upon myself to do my part in defeating this ideology of oppression, hate and violence.

If Islam is not for you, then leave it and let it be, some may say. That may be the right thing to do in many situations in life — a sort of live and let live philosophy. But in this case, it is a grievous act to do so.

“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men,” Abraham Lincoln said.

Being a free human exacts a price. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance,” said Thomas Jefferson. Simply because Islam has not yet fully asserted itself in the United States of America, my adopted home, it does not mean we should stand down against this threat, abandon vigilance, and become complacent.

Simply put, if I let Islam be, Islam doesn’t let me be. Islam doesn’t live by the same rules of reciprocity. Islam doesn’t recognize my rights and the rights of all non-Muslims. The punishment to leave Islam is death.

“Kill whoever changes his religion.” Sahih al-Bukhari 9:84:57

The notion of apostasy in Islam is something we all need to understand. It is best understood within the overall Islamic dogma. Islam forms a binding covenant with the believer. Once a person is Muslim, he and his issue are considered Muslim forever. In this covenant, Islam promises to bestow its beneficence on the faithful, conditional on the person’s total and unquestioned surrender to it in all matters. Some of the rewards offered by Islam to the truly obedient believer, particularly privileged males, are of this world, as well as a great deal more promised to him in the next. If Muslim faithful do not reap the rewards of their devotion in this world, Islam assures them of their inestimable and limitlessly compounded rewards in the next world.

Regarding apostasy, the two main branches of Islam, the Sunni and the Shiite, are in considerable agreement. The great majority of Muslim scholars of both major camps agree that the Quran stipulates death for the apostate.

Islam is on the march, and it aims to destroy anything and anyone that stands in its way Sounding the clarion call is not Islamophobia, as many Muslims and their apologists claim. A phobia is a baseless irrational fear. Warning of the danger of Islam is based on irrefutable facts, and it is not only rational, it is ethically imperative.

The concept and practice of apostasy is a shameful stain on the conscience of humanity. It is despicable for any belief system to stubbornly cling to the dehumanizing anachronism of apostasy while its counterpart, slavery, is already buried in mankind’s graveyard of past infamy.

It is a virtue to take action to oppose the hateful, a vice to ignore it. It is a virtue to fight tyranny, misogyny, discrimination of all sorts, oppression, and all manner of violations of the legitimate rights of individuals and people. Islam is constantly mutating into a terrible menace. It is a belief of fascism, a destroyer of liberty and much of what free people cherish. Therefore, it must be confronted.

We need to make a note of the terms such as Islamism, Islamofascism, radical Islam, political Islam or militant Islam that are different terms for essentially the same thing: a virulent, hate-driven, and violent system of beliefs and practices. Yet one and all are progeny of Islam itself.

It is a systemic problem of Islam that inevitably gives rise to its so-called aberrant forms. The scripture of Islam supply the justification Muslims need to assault non-Muslims.

Well, what can I say? The Islamic paradise is playing out live, but not in living color, only in a mono color -- black. Just like Islam itself very black and dreary. Take a chance, if you like, and take a trip to Iran for personally experiencing the horror of Islamic rule, the Shiite version. And while you are in the neighborhood, take a side trip to Saudi Arabia for the Sunni model. Then come back and share your experiences with the folks here. Please make sure to invite me to hear you.

In good conscience, though, I strongly recommend against doing what I have suggested. Particularly since no women should even entertain the idea of doing so. Islamic law, sharia, puts women in the same category as slaves. Yes, Islam thoroughly condones slavery and stipulates their rights at the level of domestic animals.

As I mentioned earlier while I was glancing through an old CNN article the other day, there was a report on some school in Virginia that had their students write the Shahada, in an effort to teach them Arabic calligraphy. Well, this is academic jihad calligraphy by writing out the statement “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” Well, okay, if learning Arabic calligraphy is a subject of immense value to any child’s education so that they may become skilled in the sciences of the 21st century, so be it.

Of course, I have a huge problem with this poorly disguised scheme of luring students into the trap of Islam by any and all devious means possible.

I have an even bigger problem with the media, such as CNN. Why? In this case, in reporting, they deleted the most critical part of the Shahada to make it look somewhat harmless. The Shahada is the statement of belief in Islam. When anyone impresses the Shahada in any shape or form, he is confessing his acceptance of Islam. And once you express it, you are a Muslim. And if you ever leave Islam, you become an apostate and subject to death.

Now, here's the real problem. In CNN’s translation of the Shahada, they (intentionally) left out a critical part. The Shahada starts by: I testify (meaning I accept, I verify) that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.

And the school authorities say that there is absolutely no religious scheme in this practice. Well, I would be shocked if these conniving goons would ever speak the truth and when they stop short of deceiving non-Muslims by any and all means to convert them. It is a central doctrine of their religion-- taqiyya --to deceive non-Muslims is a meritorious deed when it serves Islam.

My problem with CNN and their fellow travelers who are complicit in the crimes of doctored or inaccurate reporting that clearly protects and advances the work of these Islamic criminals who are taking advantage of our benign and open society to destroy it from within.

“In order to convert to Islam, one says the shahada. Saying the shahada makes you a Muslim. The shahada is what is on the black flag of jihad.”

“No non-Muslim student should be forced to write or say the shahada without the qualifier "Muslims believe that..." This is because it is a statement of faith. If the school exercise is requiring students to write it, it should be clear from the wording of the exercise that this is Islamic faith, not the student's faith. That distinction has been glossed over in many, many school textbook presentations.”

“A retired Florida teacher contacted Clarion Project after we published the article “Why Is This Being Taught in Public Schools?” That piece told the story of a West Virginia parent who was upset after his daughter was asked to write the shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith, as part of “calligraphy practice” in her world religion class.”

Let me explain and expose Islam and its harm. Islam is extremely possessive of its subjects. It is a religion that admits anyone into its fold by the person simply uttering a one sentence statement of faith, the shahada: I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is Allah’s messenger. By so saying, one becomes Muslim for life and surrenders the right of ever leaving it. Anyone who leaves the Islamic fold is murtad (revert), apostate.

The notion of apostasy is best understood within the overall Islamic dogma. Islam forms a binding covenant with the believer. Once a person is Muslim, he and his issue are considered Muslim forever. In this covenant, Islam promises to bestow its beneficence on the faithful conditional on the person’s total and unquestioned surrender to it in all matters.

Muslim organizations have been busy and working “stealthily” changing America in what is called “Soft Jihad,” or “Cultural Jihad,” in the United States. Soft Jihad is practiced where the sword of jihad is not advisable, where Muslims are not strong enough to unsheathe their sword, where the true nature of Islam is exposed and when the general public would likely stamp them out.

A critical tool of soft jihad, involves penetration of the American educational system, by use of means such as Da’wa-a religious duty of each Muslim to convert non-Muslims in order to strengthen the Islamic Ummah.

For as long as our elected officials bend over backwards protecting Islam as a protected species, Islam will thrive and flourish. It is long past the time for our elected officials to wake up and stop being politically correct.

There are some good-hearted, non-Muslim tolerant people who tend to overlook all the terrible things that Islam perpetrates by pointing to some of its good teachings. These folks contend that the world should direct its effort not at combating Islam, but at those individuals and groups that commit heinous acts in the name of Islam.

There are others who disagree with this benign approach. This latter group sees all the so-called aberrations as inherent and part and parcel of Islam. They believe that it is Islam that actively promotes and is terribly out of sync with the best interests of the 21st century world.

They contend that Islam may have served the primitive Arab people of 14 centuries ago. But by breaking out of its cradle and morphing into a world-dominating crusade has inflicted incalculable harm to its victims as well as those who ended up in its fold.

At present, Islam can be thought of as a stagnant body of water. Over the years, the body of water has become greatly polluted to a point that it has become a breeding medium for all kinds of death-bearing insects such as ‘West Nile Disease’ mosquitoes.

Humankind has suffered horrific wars in the past. Yet, the present multi-form and multi-front war waged by Islamists has the potential of inflicting more suffering and destroying more lives than ever before. Ruthless Islamic forces advance rapidly in their conquests while those of freedom are acquiescing and retreating. Before long, Islam is poised to achieve its Allah-mandated goal of cleansing the earth of all non-Muslims through ‘grand Jihad’ and establish the Islamic Ummah.

Jihadists have searched the scripture and selectively choose those statements and precedents that they do use to legitimize their violent and primitive agenda. The Jihadists, for instance, claim that the Quran itself urges them to make jihad, “jahedoo fee sabeil-u-llah,” (make jihad for the cause of Allah.) The word “jihad” has at least two vastly different meanings. It means exertion. It also stands for making war, and it is the latter that the jihadists invoke as their mandate.

While so-called peaceful Muslims are generally silent, either out of fear, lack of organization, or apathy, Islamists work around the clock and around the world to further their agenda. Hardly a week passes without a Grand Mufti or an Ayatollah who issues pronouncements in support of extremist Islam. The rank-and-file Islamist clergy, for their part, transmit these fatwas and edicts to their flock in mosques and hammer them into the minds of impressionable children in madrassahs. Through this grassroots process, Islam is recruiting greater and greater numbers of adherents. On the one hand, Islamists engage in acts of violence to disrupt the functioning of societies, while on the other they cleverly exploit the freedom they enjoy in non-Islamic lands to subvert them from within.

“Most should understand that strategically, identifying ‘Islam as the problem,’ immediately alienates upwards of one quarter of the world’s population and dismisses our most powerful weapon against the militant Islamists—the mantle of religion and the pulpit of moderate Muslims who can retake our faith from the Islamists.”

Well, of course it does. Shaming the devil incites the devil, calling the USSR an “evil empire” did not win Ronald Reagan points for diplomacy, but nonetheless, it was an evil empire. Calling Nazis evil did not make the Germans happy, but they were slaughtering the Jewish Poles down to the last child. This is also why liberal appeasers in 1938, who refused to call Hitler “evil,” got the world into so much trouble by creating a similarly confused intellectual forum about the Nazis. They tried to build bridges to the “moderate” Nazis; they lectured clear thinkers about the dangers of inciting German hatred by pointing out the truth. They accused conservatives of being “just as fascist” as the Nazis; they sent ambassadors and made treaties and trusted that the moderates would come out and “reform” their zealous leadership.

Humanity, with the Muslims in the lead, must stop deluding themselves and abandon Islam altogether. It is really nothing more than an infested corpse that needs be properly disposed of.

We all need to move on. To move away from exclusionary, primitive, and tribal mentality to a vision of all humanity being one, with justice and liberty for all.